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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread.
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 00:10:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170404071033.GA25855@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871staffus.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

But if you actually care about performance in any way I'd suggest
to use the loop device in direct I/O mode..

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-04  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-03  1:18 [PATCH] loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread NeilBrown
2017-04-04  7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-04-05  4:27   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-05  5:13     ` Ming Lei
2017-04-04 11:23 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-04 14:24 ` Ming Lei
2017-04-05  4:31   ` NeilBrown
2017-04-05  4:33 ` [PATCH v2] " NeilBrown
2017-04-05  5:05   ` Ming Lei
2017-04-05  7:19   ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-05  7:32     ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06  2:23       ` NeilBrown
2017-04-06  6:53         ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 23:47           ` [PATCH v3] " NeilBrown

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